Soutik Biswas BBC News, London JUBAIR BIN IQBAL/AFP/Getty Images The plane crashed into a two-storey primary school building in a sprawling campus “It was like 30 or 40 thunderbolts falling from the sky,” said Ahnaf Bin Hasan, an 18-year-old student…
Facebook Tweet Email Link TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese voters rejected a bid to oust about one-fifth of their lawmakers, all from the opposition Nationalist Party, in a recall election Saturday, dampening hopes for the ruling party to flip the…
A wildfire burned through a northern suburb of the Greek capital of Athens on Saturday and some residents were ordered to evacuate, the country’s fire service reported. Residents of the town of Kryoneri, 12.5 miles (20km) north-east of Athens, received…
Israel launched its attack on Gaza in October 2023, after an attack by Hamas militants on Israeli territory killed over 1,000 people. Nearly 60,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, according to local…
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese terrorist who served 41 years in a French prison for planning the 1982 murder of Israeli diplomat Yaacov Bar-Simantov in Paris and plotting to kill American diplomat Charles Ray in the same year, was released…
Tessa Wong BBC News, Asia Digital Reporter BBC / Tessa Wong Several of the Kuomintang lawmakers facing the recall vote appeared at an anti-recall rally last weekend Thousands of Taiwanese are heading to the polls in an unprecedented and controversial…
Anadolu via Getty Images A Thai soldier stands guard in the Surin province on the border with Cambodia Cambodia has called for an “immediate” ceasefire with Thailand, after two days of cross-border fighting between the two South East Asian neighbours.…
The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. The U.S. Army reportedly fired over 150 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile interceptors to help defend Israel during its…
Nick Triggle Health correspondent Getty Images The NHS is facing a challenging few days during the doctors’ strike in England as it attempts to keep as many services as possible running, said the health secretary. Wes Streeting said while it…
Tessa Wong BBC News, Taipei Getty Images Taiwan’s legislators have engaged in brawls in parliament in recent months amid a heated political deadlock For most of his life, Deng Pu didn’t see himself as an activist – but that changed…